Wiggling magnetic fields make electricity
Fusion reactors have wiggling magnetic fields.
Simple as
76I really cant decide if that's a joke.
But you have to move from "Fusion reactors have wiggling magnetic fields." into "Fusion reactors create wiggling magnetic fields."
I'm out of the loop here, but I can almost guarantee that whoever people are talking about, they didn't achieve that change.
22Here's a video explaining the principal. They haven't achieved more outpit than input yet, but fusion creates giant magnetic fields that can in theory generate electricity. It's really fascinating
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But it takes wiggling magnetic fields to confine fusion reactions, seems like taking energy from inefficient containment, or there's more energy than required being used on containment which is lowering the overall efficiency....
I am just a chemist.
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There are other more efficient working fluids for power transfer but water is pretty hard to beat due to it not being toxic or an environmental hazard.
48If your water isn't an environmental hazard, you're not trying hard enough.
11water coolant in nuclear reactor enters the chat
Marketing person looking for fancy drinking water enters the chat
Narrator: you wouldn't guess what happens next
<Insert Pikachu meme>
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What a novel and interesting idea! If only it wasn't all a huge scam to take money from investors!
33I'll believe it when they actually generate net electricity output. I don't necessarily think they're a scam per se, but given the relative resources available and difficulty even for international projects to get fusion power working, I don't suspect their efforts will be successful. Would love to be proven wrong of course, or if not for their work to at least contribute useful progress to the effort.
21I recommend watching this video about it: https://youtu.be/_bDXXWQxK38
3I have, that was how I heard about them in the first place actually
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I mean they’re using an effectively off the shelf reactor which if outputted as promised would fatally irradiate anyone in the area, so i’m not sure the’re really set up to do much beyond separation of fools and money.
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Remember that time when a physicist proposed a Thorium Potassium reactor which woudl run at a lower temperature and the feature that the reaction would destroy itself before ever going critical and the world was like "interesting" and then he said "and it even prevents weaponised uranium" and then the world went "no thank you"
12ITER isn't figuring it out, I doubt this tiny private corporation is going to contribute anything meaningful.
11They're taking completely different approaches to fusion though.
14Without good instrumentation. Almost purposely lacking..
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do they not produce heat?
4Pretty much everything that's not totally inert produces heat, but the point (they claim!) is that these newfangled doodads don't generate power using that heat.
So far we've mainly been generating power with more and more ingenious ways of heating up water.
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So it's a turbine then?
2Way to I made a new generate energy? What?
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